- IPhone 18 could have Under-Display Face ID
- With the iPhone 19 Apple may also move the selfie camera under the display
- The company also tests apparently a 200MP camera
Apple usually does not change the design of its phones every year, but over the next three years could be different as a leak has shared a roadmap pointing to significant visual changes with each future generation.
Digital Chat Station (via notebookcheck) has shared an alleged roadmap that describes how Apple can change the design for each iPhone from iPhone 17 to iPhone 19. First up, with this year’s models we will apparently see the long rumored horizontal, rectangular camera block. No surprises there.
But then in 2026 with the iPhone 18, Apple will apparently hide facial ID under the screen, so there is just a punch hole camera cut, and then with the iPhone 19 in 2027, the camera will apparently also be hidden under the screen, allowing for a design on the entire screen without cutting.
Numerous sources have suggested that this is something Apple is working on, and some agree with this timeline-factual as far back as 2023 we heard that the iPhone 19 possibly getting a sub-display camera. It’s still far away, so we would take this with a pinch of salt.
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Wow, Apple is testing a 200MP image sensor! pic.twitter.com/jdevnzxqk6May 27, 2025
What we might also see sometime in the next few years is an iPhone with a 200MP camera-rest would be a match with regard to megapixel for the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and far more than the 48 megapixels found in current iPhones.
According to the same source (this time via @jukanlosreve), Apple tests a 200MP sensor, but if tested only, there is no guarantee that it will ever be used. We also wouldn’t expect to see it on the iPhone 17 series, as this is the first we hear about it and we would think that such a big Spec change would typically have been leaked long before now.
Digital Chat Station does not say which model can get this, but we then assume that we will not see it before the iPhone 18 earliest. And with all these leaks, it is completely possible that only the Pro and Pro Max models will actually see these changes, at least originally, though the source does not specify.
